Capable Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has…

— Tom Hiddleston

Great men have great flaws as well as great deeds.

— Anonymous

“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.”

— Alexander Pope

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering,…

— Ayn Rand

But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's…

— Sidney Lanier

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may…

— William Hazlitt

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld